Is Applegate Naturals Chicken & Maple Breakfast Sausage Patties ultra-processed?

16 oz Sold in the United States

It's processed, but not ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Whole foods combined with:

Maple syrup
Sugar

7 ingredients
No additives
Nutri-Score E

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Chicken, Water, Cane Sugar (processing marker), Maple Syrup (processing marker), Contains 2% and Less Of Salt, Spices, Maple Sugar (processing marker)

As written on the pack

Chicken**, Water, Cane Sugar, Maple Syrup, Contains 2% Or Less Of Salt, Spices, Maple Sugar.

What makes it processed

Culinary ingredients

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Maple syrup An ingredient mostly produced industrially and rarely used in home kitchens.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 0025317291873, last edited 22 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of E (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.